Cooler for soda water, etc.



July 30, 19 29.

J. BENZION COOLER FOR SODA WATER, ETC

Filed Nov. 2, 1927' Patented July 30, 1929.

UNITED STATES 1,722,266 erear creme.

JOSEPH BENZION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COOLER FOR SODA WATER, ETC.

Application filed November 2', 1927. Serial No. 230,474.

This invention relates to improvements in coolmg devices, which are designed more especially for use in conjunction with soda water fountalns or the like for cooling car 5 bonated liquids, the object being to obviate all danger of contamination of the charged water within the cooler and accidental chemlcal action; to provide a constructionwhereby' and thereby strain or break the pipe connec tions leading from one element to another. A further object is to provide a construction which permits the cooler to be packed and operate in ice in a vertical or horizontal position.

These and other objects will appear to anyone skilled in this art by a reading of the following description and an examination of the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a plan view partly in section of my new and improved cooler shown on a small scale;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation also partly in section;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through one of the elements showing the same in a horizontal position.

11 represent cylindrical liquid receptacles preferably of glass, which are to be packed in ice, and through each of which successively the liquid to be cooled must pass. At the opposite ends of each of these receptacle elements 1-1, I provide caps 23. All of the caps 22 are connected by bridging members H integral therewith, while all of the caps 38 are successively connected by the bridging members 55 integral therewith. These bridging members, like the caps, are made of suitable non-corrosive metal. Suitable packing washers or gaskets should be provided between the ends of the container elements 11 and their respective caps. The bridges 15 are preferably made rigid enough to properly connect the several cooling elements 11, and yet are not so rigid that when the cap parts are assembled they cannot yield sufficiently to cause each indi' vidual cap to clamp with the desired firmness on the end of its respective container 1. Manifestly, unless the length of all of these containers corresponded exactly,if both series of caps are rigidly connected by inflexible bridges, certain of the containers would be gripped between the upper and lower caps less tlghtly than others. Accordingly, to avoid this danger, I preferably make bridges 14,

5-5 sufficiently yieldable or flexible to permit each complementary pair of caps 2-3 to be clamped on its particular container withthe desired and necessary firmness to guarantee a tight joint. Any suitablemeans may be provided for clamping the respective caps In the" to their respective container units; drawings, I have shown stay bolts 66 secured at one end to the cap 3, and provided with thumb nuts 77 at the opposite ends.

Manifestly,' when the several cooler elements are in place, they constitute a unit series of containers firmly and mutually held in properly spaced and operative relation with each other, there being sufl'icient space left between adjacent containers to permit finely divided ice to be packed therein, the entire unit being, of course, surrounded by ice when in use. 8 represents what I will term the inlet end of the cooler to which a supply pipe may be conveniently attached by the use of any desired coupling means. 9 is a transfer pipe, one end of which terminates near the bottom of, let us say, the first of the series of cooler elements 1. This pipe not only terminates near the bottom as shown in Fig. 2, but also near one side as shown in Fig. 3 so that the unit may be used in vertical or horizontal position. The other end of the pipe 9 passes through the cap 2 and is bent over and connected to the cap of the second of the series of cooler elements, as plainly appears in Fig. 2. The second of the series of container elements 1 is provided with a similar transfer pipe which communicates with the next of said series, and so on, there being four container elements in the drawing. In the last of the series of container elements the outer end of the pipe 9 terminates in a suitable fitting 10 to which a discharge pipe may be secured. Manifestly, the joint between each of the pipes 9 and the caps 22 with which they are connected should be gas-tight.

In use, liquid to be cooled, such as a carbonated liquid, is admitted at 8. When it fills the container element 1, it is then transferred through the pipe 9 to the next container element, and so on, to the last of said container elements, filling all of the same. Thus, when this cooler is packed in ice, the liquid is adequately and effectively cooled and, since the several cooler elements are mutually supported by the bridging members 45, they cannot move, and the danger of straining a pipe joint or breaking the transfer pipes 99 is entirely avoided. Furthermore, by this construction the entire cooler is very much more easily and safely handled than would otherwise be the case.

' I claim:

1. In a cooler of the character described, a series of containers, caps for the ends of each container, means on said caps engaging said containers in gas-tight relation, yieldable bridging pieces integrally connecting the caps at each end of said-containers, similar means for connecting the caps at opposite ends of said containers, a transfer pipe leading from the lower part of one container to the upper part of another container, an inlet in the first container of the series, and an outlet in the last container of the series, the inlet and outlet communicating respectively with bridging pieces integrally connecting the caps at each end of said containers, means for connecting the caps at opposite ends of said containers, a transfer pipe leading from the lower part of one container to the upper part of another container, an inlet in the first container of the series, and an outlet in the last container of the series,the inlet and out-let communicating respectively with the opposite ends of the particular containers with which they are associated respectively, the inner end of each transfer pipe being positioned closely adjacent to the end and the side of the container in which it is located.

3. In a cooler of the character described, a

plurality of cylindrical containers, two series of caps for the opposite ends of said contalners, means on said caps engaging said containers in gas-tight relation, bridging pieces for the caps of each of said series and integral therewith respectively, tie means between the complementary caps of each series, a transfer pipe leading from one end of each of the containers to the opposite end of the adjacent container, an inlet leading into one end of the first of the series of containers, and an outlet leading from the opposite end to the last of the series of containers.

' JOSEPH BENZION. 

